Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/29/07 00:30

Scripsit Matt:

> Am I right in thinking that this code doesn't work in Safari?

"This code"? Please learn to post to Usenet. You're supposed to start
the message by telling what you are referring to. You're supposed to
post a URL if you have a specific page that you have a problem with.

Besides, meta refresh was never guaranteed to work, and has often been
advised against.

> I've
> just written a PHP script for posting comments which uses a meta
> refresh to reload the page so the user can't hit Reload and duplicate
> their comment.

You're on a wrong track. Please don't try to write some discussion forum
software before you have a fairly good idea of how the Web works.
Instead, use existing software to set up a forum. Better still, join
someone else's forum. There's no shortage of discussion forums that were
born dead and remain dead.

> I added a 'click here to continue' link underneath the
> 'you will now be redirected' message, but this isn't ideal -

It's a fairly good way to tell that the author of the page has no clue
on creating discussion forums.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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